Clothes-drier.



PATENTED MAY 1907.

F. MULLER. CLOTHES DRIER.

.APPL IOATIONIILED SEPT. 15, 1906.

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FRITZ MULLER, OF NEUNKIRCHEN, GERMANY.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1907.

Application filed September 15, 1906. Serial No- 334,818.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRITZ Mi'JLLER, a sub ject of the German Emperor, residing at N eunkirchen, Rhenish Irussia, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Driers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a clothes drier of such construction that the .known frame or spider provided with the supporting rods on which the clothes are hung may be easily and conveniently swung up, the parts of the spider with elevated body being referably folded back against the wall in or er that as little space as possible is occupied.

Referring to the accompanying drawing,

, Figure 1 represents the clothes drier in its elevated position and also in its intermediate position as indicated by dotted lines; Fig. 2 represents the clothes drier when lowered for hanging clothes thereon; Fig. 3 is a plan of Fig. 2.

A wall bracket w forms the support of the whole device and is fixed at a suitable accessible'height against the wall surface, which affords a free space above and below. The bracket arm a is pivoted to the said bracket at a and carries at its free end the body I) (pivoted at v) of the spider f on'which the clothes are to be hung.

In order that the body I) of the spider may always assume the necessary horizontal osition, parallel motion is provided for etween the bracket w and the body of the spider by a connection between the oints p and and by the provision of a race 0, which may be formed of wire or the like, or it may also be a rod.

It is obvious from Figs. 1 and 2 that the mechanism p q o a for parallel motion maintains the horizontal position for the body of the s ider no matter what position is assume by the swinging bracket arm a.

A rocking lever h (Figs. 1 and 2) preferably serves as means for raising and lowering the clothes drier. This lever is connected to the bracket at i and is provided with a short bell crank lever arm preferably having a roller 2. In the elevated osition of the clothes drier, the arm j wit roller 7 impinges behind and more or less perpendicularly to the projection s of the uplifted bracket arm a, the lever h being directed downward against the wall. Consequently, the saidarm 3' produces a locking action, whereby the frame of the clothes drier is prevented from dropping out of the position as indicated. The locking position of this leverh itself is also thus insured owing to the direction of the impinging action. If the lever h, as indicated in Fig. 1 by dotted lines, is turned to the front, the bracket arm a with the body I) of the spider is lowered accordingly. Finally, the device assumes the position as indicated in Fig. 2, sothat in this lowered osition, the supporting rods forming the spider f on the body I) can be easily reached for hanging the clothes thereon. A further descent of the frame is rendered impossible by the arm of the lever h as the former with roller 1" takes up the limiting position and the projection s of the bracket arm is sup-ported beneath the roller. 1" (Fig. 2).

It is suflicient for lifting the clothes drier out of the position indicated in Fig. 2 to downwardly press the lever it toward the wall; the roller 1 and lever arm j respectively then act like a lifting cam on the extension 8 of the bracket arm and the device with the clothes hung thereon is readily lifted into the ele vated position, wherein the bracket arm a is quite upright and the lever h likewise extends downwardly alongside the wall. In this locked position, any contraction of space by projecting parts is obviated.

The construction of the spider f is such that the supporting rods are removably socketed in the body of the spider and the cage-like part 7c.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim and wish to secure by Letters Patent is A clothes drier comprising a bracket, an arm having one end pivoted therein with a part projecting beyond the pivot, a spider pivoted to the other end of the arm, a connection above and parallel with the said arm and connecting the spider to the bracket, and a two arm lever pivoted in the bracket and having one arm engaging with the projecting end of the arm to raise and lower the outer end thereof.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRITZ MULLER.

Witnesses WALTER HoUsING, WALTER SCHUMANN. 

